Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The accidental discharge of a shotgun killed J. T. Walkers, a wealthy merchant of Knoxville, Tenn. Henry J. Yates, about 28 years old, was found dead in his room nt Memphis, Tenn. Death resulted from an overdose of morphine. Thirteen men, prospecting for cinnabar along the Rio Grande river in Presidio County, Texas, were drowned in floods which swept away two camps. The Confederate Soldiers’ Home, just east of Atlanta, (la., was destroyed by fire. There were no fatalities. The loss is estimated at $25,000, with insurance of $22,000. At Htfllville, Texas, a party of white men whipped n negro so severely that he died. They then attempted to break into the house of another negro, who shot and instantly killed Julian Atwood. Armed citizens have been searching for Tom Walker, who is charged with the shooting, and late reports say that he has been hanged. The trouble arose over crop mortgages.